quick bare clones taking longer?

master.kernel.org just upgraded to git-1.5.1.4 and I notice that doing something like this:

	git clone --bare -n -l -s ../torvalds/linux-2.6.git test-2.6.git

is no longer an instantaneous operation, it seems to be doing a lot of stuff now:

Initialized empty Git repository in /home/davem/git/test-2.6.git/
remote: Generating pack...
remote: Done counting 480025 objects.
remote: Deltifying 480025 objects.
remote:  100% (480025/480025) done
Indexing 480025 objects.
remote: Total 480025 (delta 385878), reused 473265 (delta 379369)
 100% (480025/480025) done
Resolving 385878 deltas.
 100% (385878/385878) done

Is there a new way to get a quick clone?

Thanks!